Welcome to the Saint Mary choir blog.

The church has both an adult and junior choir. We are affiliated to the Royal School of Church Music(RSCM). The junior choir are provided with tuition to enable them to gain their RSCM medals.

The senior choir is a SATB choir with its main responsibility to sing at the 10am Sunday service, including an anthem. See below for more details.

Our choirs do not require any fees to belong to them. New members to both the senior and junior choir are always welcome, whatever their standard. If you are interested in joining us please contact our Director of Music (Joanna) via the  Contact Us page.

Thursday, 17 October 2019

Thursday 17th October 2019

Guy Jonathan Borer

Today we said farewell to our friend and fellow chorister, Guy. He was a stalwart of the bass line and died after a short illness. We shall miss our enthusiastic and committed member of the choir.

The music at his funeral was chosen because he loved it.

O Thou The Central Orb   Charles Wood  Words H R Bramley

Guy particularly liked this anthem as it has a stirring bass entrance in the middle of the piece.

The choir said together

Bless, O Lord, us thy servants, who minister in thy temple.
Grant that what we sing with our lips, we may believe in our hearts,
and what we believe in our hearts, we may show forth in our lives.
Through Jesus Christ our Lord,
Amen.

As Guy took his final journey on this earth, we sang the Nunc Dimitis in C by C V Stanford.

Lord, now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace according to thy word.
For mine eyes have seen thy salvation,
Which thou has prepared before the face of all people;
To be a light to lighten the Gentiles and to be the glory of thy people Israel.
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost:
As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be;
World without end.
Amen.

For the recessional, our musical director Joanna Chivers, played Guy's favourite organ piece,  The War March of the Priests  from Athalia by Felix Mendelssohn.


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